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"Pop Goes the Press," which opens today at the Allentown Art Museum, is one big jack-in-the-box. The exhibition consists of 28 works by Pop artists who from 1960 to 1990 made icons -- madonnas, movies, mummers -- pop out of spring-loaded settings. It was David Brigham, the art museum's executive director, who conceived of a companion show to "Andy Warhol" made up of painterly, sculptural prints by Warhol contemporaries from the museum's collection. It was guest curator Robert Mattison who took Brigham's idea for a mad spin around a Hot Wheels serpentine track.

When a Poconos gas station caught fire Wednesday, employees and customers sprang into action, dousing the flames behind Schoch's Sunoco with bags of ice and water from car wash wands until firefighters arrived. Their efforts kept the fire from spreading beyond a storage area and causing even more damage to the Hamilton Township business, said Leon Clapper, fire chief of the township's Blue Ridge Hook & Ladder Company. "The credit goes to the employees," Clapper said. Two of them, Mike Balch and Ty Shoemaker, were taken to Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg, suffering from smoke inhalation, store owner Rose Schoch said.

Brian Radzwill, a junior at DeSales University, top (left), and David Graver, a senior, eat a meal they got from a passerby on the campus Thursday. They were part of the Great American Sleep Out to bring attention to homelessness. Junior Joanna Armstrong, center, sophomore Kelly Smith, bottom (left), and sophomore Amanda Reese were among those who spent the night on campus in cardboard boxes.

Last winter Richard Redd fell asleep to a recording of Mahler's seventh symphony, nicknamed "Song of the Night." When he woke up in his Upper Saucon Township farmhouse, the retired professor and printmaker had an idea for his own nocturne. Redd prepared the collagraph in his studio, a former pair of bedrooms for his children. Working by two picture windows that frame his cultivated, wild backyard, he layered acrylic pastes and inks on cardboard, then pressed the plate onto paper. After pulling the print, he had an image of Mahler standing in a boat on the ocean, conducting a ghost orchestra on the shore under an arc of six moons.

For two years Touchstone Theatre and other Bethlehem organizations have been using Miguel de Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" to promote literacy, racial tolerance and community building. This is the third in a series of stories on events leading to the July 9-10 premiere of "Don Quixote of Bethlehem," a moving outdoor production with a cast of more than 160. Don Quixote is one of literature's most endearing, infuriating split personalities. He's a terrible soldier and an excellent warrior for justice.

By Harry Rinker Special to The Morning Call - Freelance | January 14, 2005

Dear Harry: In the 1960s or early 1970s I acquired five humorous cardboard signs that measure 63/4 x 41/2 inches. The right and left edges are serrated. The background is a light brown wood grain. The images feature cartoon characters ranging from hillbillies to MAD magazine types. The signs are numbered. Number 13, captioned "We Aim for Accuracy (the "Y" is upside down)," has an archer in the upper left corner and a gentlemen with an arrow through his forehead instead of the apple on his head in the lower right corner.

Moravian College students (from left) Maggie Berhalen of Phillipsburg, Stephanie Anderson of Horsham, Kate Strucek of Brielle, N.J., Amy Frantz of Bethlehem and Chad Majczan of Hellertown sit by cardboard structures on campus Wednesday to participate in Empathy Through Experience: A Day Without Adequate Housing. They join 35 to 40 students of the Habitat for Humanity chapter who plan to spend the night in cardboard homes to draw attention to the lack of affordable housing in the Lehigh Valley.

BETHLEHEM A Bethlehem woman carrying an armful of cardboard to a compactor at Bethlehem's Illick's Mill Road recycling center Saturday apparently collided with a car, according to police. Witnesses said Carol J. Huennekens, 52, had her vision blocked by the cardboard and appeared to walk into a car driven by George Z. Heimbach, 73, of Bethlehem as he backed out of a parking spot, city police said. Huennekens was treated at St. Luke's Hospital, Fountain Hill, after she reported feeling pain in her foot and ankle.

A homeless man whose body was found Thursday at the Monroe County recycling center died of being accidentally crushed when a Dumpster of cardboard in which he probably sought shelter was collected and processed, officials said. Larry Murray, 54, died of blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen, Monroe County Chief Deputy Coroner Jody Hutton said after an autopsy Friday. Hutton ruled the death an accident. "What we're saying is that the injuries were consistent with what could have happened during the processing of the cardboard," Hutton said.

Josh Humlhanz and Becky Brown, top photo, try out the rides in the "Gastro Theme Park' that they and other health class students at Pennridge High School researched, designed and created at the end of the school year. At left is the Bladder Room, put together with foam insulation and cardboard tubing. Below, Aubrey Tatarowicz (right), inspects a carousel with classmate Cameron Koehler. The ride featured organs in the body